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  "title": "Projecting Public Debt - The Public Debt Dynamics Tool",
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  "summary": "Projecting Public Debt - The Public Debt Dynamics Tool Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2025-02-10",
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    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - All government officials are welcome to register.\n  - Particularly useful for officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics is helpful.\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
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    {
      "heading": "Course Description and Core Content",
      "content": "- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Two-module online course that:\n  - Lays out the underpinnings of public debt dynamics (i.e., the evolution of public debt over time).\n  - Explains how concepts are applied in an easy-to-use Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT).\n- The DDT:\n  - Uses projections of some 10 key macroeconomic and financial variables to provide public debt projections under baseline and stress test scenarios.\n  - Produces fan charts that describe uncertainty about the evolution of debt over time in a probabilistic manner.\n  - Identifies the main drivers of public debt changes.\n  - Computes measures of fiscal adjustments necessary to achieve a public debt target during a user-specified period."
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    {
      "heading": "Learning Objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Compute public debt dynamics.\n- Identify the main drivers of public debt dynamics.\n- Compute measures of fiscal adjustments necessary to achieve a public debt target.\n- Conduct a stress test to public debt dynamics, including through the use of fan charts.\n- Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis to assess the risk of debt distress."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Related IMF Training Context (listed offerings)",
      "content": "- Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS): English (French, Portuguese) | January 18-29, 2027 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius\n- Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A): English (Arabic) | December 13-17, 2026 | In-person Training | Kuwait City, Kuwait\n- Fiscal Sustainability (FS): English (Arabic) | November 9-20, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates\n- Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC): English (French, Portuguese) | November 9-13, 2026 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius\n- Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC): English (Arabic) | December 7-18, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"
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    "Compute measures of fiscal adjustments necessary to achieve a public debt target.",
    "Conduct a stress test to public debt dynamics, including through the use of fan charts.",
    "Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis to assess the risk of debt distress.",
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    "Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A): English (Arabic) | December 13-17, 2026 | In-person Training | Kuwait City, Kuwait",
    "Fiscal Sustainability (FS): English (Arabic) | November 9-20, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    "Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC): English (French, Portuguese) | November 9-13, 2026 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius",
    "Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC): English (Arabic) | December 7-18, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"
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